Example sentences of "[noun prp] [conj] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the sciences were less subordinate to theology at the time of Newton than at the time of Copernicus , had the Reformation in religion created favorable conditions for a reformation in science ? |
| 2 | Uzuncarsili follows much the same line , though perhaps in an attempt to salvage something of the Taskopruzade/Mecdi story he suggests in effect that in that story Mehmed I ( 1413–21 ) should be read for Bayezid I : he thus concludes that Molla Fenari left for Karaman either in the confused period following Ankara or in the time of Mehmed I , in the manner described by Taskopruzade . |
| 3 | So , come to this part of Spain and by the time you leave you 'll understand why this area has become the most popular and cosmopolitan playground of Europe for young people . |
| 4 | " I think I learnt a few things , " laughs Eva though at the time it must have been extremely painful for the girl who had " excelled at everything " . |
| 5 | ‘ To be fair , Kitty told us you were listed as killed on the Marne and by the time anyone found out the truth it was too late . ’ |
| 6 | In the late nineteenth century his family helped to found this small town in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains and by the time that Stanley Pons was growing up it had a thriving textile industry , his father owning several mills and employing over 1000 workers . |
| 7 | Nivelle Elite , who all sired some excellent stock , some of which was exported to Australia and at the time of writing , has taken Best in Show at Club Championship Show level . |
| 8 | In the spring of 1939 , Picasso stated to Zervos that at the time when he was painting the Demoiselles his attention had been centred on Iberian sculpture in the Louvre . |
| 9 | Allan McKay 's father , a gas engineer , Ian McKay , 40 , told Mrs Paton that at the time his son disappeared he had not known of the existence of the quarry . |
| 10 | There was the board of governors sitting at the back on this cold grey Monday and I got up and I did some Shakespeare and by the time I finished , dawn was breaking . |
| 11 | He was from London and at the time he left claimed that his wife was homesick . |
| 12 | and erm of course computers did n't help in the slightest because er , I think the er , I may be wrong about this but as I understood it erm the computer programmer worked for West Suffolk but at the time of reorganization he 'd got himself another job . |
| 13 | Police saw him go into a flat in West London but by the time they entered he 'd gone . |
| 14 | As The Beatles rose inexorably , so did Smith and by the time ‘ his mates ’ were splitting up in 1970 , he was approached to take over the editorship of NME . |